Applied researcher, statistician, and friend-of-Terry John Lipinski joins to talk about job prospects for psychology PhDs, numbers and figures, modern (and old-fashioned) brain science, Iron Maiden, iron rods through the skull, and much more.

2m 45s Terry finds his friends on Upwork.

6m 26s Psychology as a fuzzy discipline. “People are messy. Societies are messy.”

8m 15s Pressure, incentives, and results in the ivory towers of soft science.

14m 17s Anyone can be a labor economist as long as they have a mouth and an opinion.

20m 24s Why graduate school stops people from having babies.

24m 15s Shortcomings with measuring intelligence. New, interdisciplinary insights into systems approaches.

33m 10s Phineas Gage is a great test of whether you read a Psych 101 textbook. Logic and emotion going hand-in-hand. What’s the appendix of the brain?

38m 40s Should linear metrics be banned from social science studies? No.